terça-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2025

Starmer says Labour must get economy working and 'we're beginning to see how that's turning around'


 

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Starmer says Labour must get economy working and 'we're beginning to see how that's turning around'

Keir Starmer has claimed that the economy is beginning to revive.

 

Growth has been largely flat since Labour took office, but in an interview with Bloomberg this morning he claimed that it was starting to revive.

 

We have to get our economy working. I think we’re beginning to see how that’s turning around.

 

The number one priority of this Labour government is growth: growth, growth, growth.

 

Starmer spoke to Bloomberg after his meeting this morning with business leaders, ahead of Rachel Reeves’ speech tomorrow on promoting growth. According to Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham, “hose in attendance at the breakfast meeting included Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn, Nationwide Building Society CEO Debbie Crosbie, BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn and Tesco chief Ken Murphy. Other companies represented included Sage Group, Taylor Wimpey, BT, Unilever and Vodafone Group.”

 

Starmer told the meeting that growth was the government’s number one mission and that ministers were “hardwiring growth into all the decisions of the cabinet”.

 

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Starmer says he wants 'even better' trading relationship with US

In his Bloomberg interview Keir Starmer also said that he wanted an “even better” trading relationship with the US.

 

We’ve got a huge amount of trade between our two countries already and the base is there for even better trading relations. We need to build on t

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